The General Office of the State Council relayed 鈥淐ircular for further encouraging and introducing social capital to set up medical institution鈥?published by NDRC the and Ministry of Health. China will relax restrictions for social capital to enter China. Foreigners can set up hospitals in China.

鈥淐ircular鈥?says that medical institutions invested by foreign capital are adapted from limited class into the allowed foreign investment project. It gradually abolishes share ratio limits of foreign capital investment in hospital and first takes the fully owned foreign-invested hospital as the pilot. Examination and approval should be simplified. Joint venture and cooperative medical institutions are authorized by provinces (they should be authorized by the nation before). Fully owned foreign-invested medical institutions should be examined and approved by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Commerce.